Warriors want outright title

Woodbridge's girls basketball Coach Pete Belanto has taken some good natured kidding from followers about last season.

The Warriors won the Pacific Coast League title, but they had to share it with University.

This year, Woodbridge is 7-0 with three games remaining in the regular season, and barring a big upset in the final week and a half, will win the title outright.

"That would be nice to win it outright, because last year I got in a lot of trouble for not winning it outright," Belanto joked after Woodbridge's victory over Northwood Tuesday. "I took a lot of grief. We wanted to go 10-0; that was our goal."

Playoffs coming

Belanto still sees room for improvement for his squad, which is 21-3 overall.

"We just need to start playing better basketball," Belanto said. "We're just not playing very good basketball right now. We don't have crispness to our offense and our defense only plays in spurts and then we get ourselves in foul trouble on silly fouls and we give up too many free throws. That's a problem.

"We have three games to get ourselves ready for the playoffs. Our division (2AA) is really tough. It's probably the second toughest division because there are some good teams like Cajon, J.W. North and Lynwood."

Water polo logjam

Irvine's girls water polo team benefited Tuesday by Woodbridge's 9-8 victory over Beckman on Tuesday.

The Vaqueros, 5-3 in league, are in second place after defeating University, 13-3, on Tuesday. Woodbridge and Beckman are tied for third place after Tuesday's match with 4-3 records.

Woodbridge coach Dion Gray believes her squad has a solid chance of earning a wild card berth if it does not finish in the top three.

Crowds smaller

The crowd was smaller than usual for Tuesday's Northwood-Woodbridge boys basketball game because this is finals week in Irvine and high school youngsters were home studying for finals, at least that's what we're told.

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